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Image # : statecommission1957
Date : 1957

Title

The State Commission for the Sputnik Satellite

Full Description

The State Commission for the Sputnik satellite shown in 1957. The State Commission was a temporary ad-hoc body comprised of various representatives of the Soviet military, industry, and the design bureaus. The State Commission remained in existence only during the testing phase of Sputnik, serving as a primary conduit for communication with party leaders on the state of the program. Seated left to right are: Ivan Bulychev, Grigoriy Udarov, Aleksandr Mrykin, Mikolay Pilyugin, Mstislav Keldysh, Vasiliy Mishin, Leonid Voskresenskiy, Vasiliy Ryabikov, Mitrofan Medelin, Sergey Korolev, Konstantin Rudnev, Valentin Glushko, and Valdimir Barmin. Standing left to right are: Aleksey Bogomolov, Pavel Trubachev, Viktor Kuznetsov, Anatoliy Vasilyev, Konstantin Bushuyev, Aleksandr Nosov, Ivan Borisenko, Aleksey Nesterenko, Georgiy Pashkov, Mikhail Ryazanskiy, and Viktor Kurbatov.

Keywords

State Commission Sputnik Soviet Union Bulychev Udarov Mrykin Pilyugin Keldysh Mishin Voskresenskiy Ryabikov Medelin Korolev Rudnev Glushko Barmin Bogomolov Trubachev Kuznetsov Vasilyev Bushuyev Nosov Borisenko Nesterenko Pashkov Ryazanskiy Kurbatov

Subject Category

Soviet People-Pioneers,

Reference Numbers

  • Center: HQ
  • Center Number: statecommission1957
  • GRIN DataBase Number: GPN-2002-000165

Source Information

  • Original Source: DIGITAL
  • Source/Capture Information: Asif Siddiqi

Image Information ( Copyright Notification )

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Thumbnail JPEG 63 28 4
Small JPEG 448 197 60
Medium JPEG 1050 462 295
Large JPEG 2100 923 962

Publication Information

Image from the files of Asif Siddiqi. Image and caption from Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945- 1974 (NASA SP-2000-4408) by Asif A. Siddiqi. Please note that the image number assigned to this image is not an official NASA number. It is for GRIN database purposes only.
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